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Jerry Spinelli

Autor/a de Stargirl

60+ obres 50,653 Membres 1,282 Ressenyes 50 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Jerry Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania on February 1, 1941. He received a bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He worked as an editor with Chilton from 1966 to 1989. He launched his career in children's literature with Space mostra'n més Station 7th Grade in 1982. He has written over 30 books including The Bathwater Gang, Picklemania, Stargirl, Milkweed, and Mama Seeton's Whistle. In 1991, he won the Newbery Award for Maniac Magee. In 1998, Wringer was named a Newbery Honor book. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl (2000) 10,395 exemplars
Maniac Magee (1990) 9,180 exemplars
Loser (2003) 3,853 exemplars
Wringer (1997) 3,503 exemplars
Milkweed (1994) 2,971 exemplars
Crash (1996) 2,467 exemplars
Love, Stargirl (2007) 2,376 exemplars
Fourth Grade Rats (1991) 2,214 exemplars
The Library Card (1997) 2,156 exemplars
Eggs (2007) 1,552 exemplars
Smiles to Go (2008) 1,365 exemplars
Knots in My Yo-Yo String (1998) 1,133 exemplars
Third Grade Angels (2012) 958 exemplars
Report to the Principal's Office (1991) 947 exemplars
Do the Funky Pickle (1992) 600 exemplars
Jake and Lily (2012) 515 exemplars
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock (1991) 501 exemplars
Picklemania! (1993) 358 exemplars
Hokey Pokey (2013) 351 exemplars
Space Station Seventh Grade (1982) 322 exemplars
The Warden's Daughter (2017) 302 exemplars
I Can Be Anything! (2010) 280 exemplars
The Stargirl Collection (2-in-1) (2007) 255 exemplars
Tooter Pepperday (1995) 146 exemplars
Jason and Marceline (1986) 138 exemplars
Dump Days (1988) 98 exemplars
The Bathwater Gang (1990) 90 exemplars
Stargirl Journal (2007) 88 exemplars
Blue Ribbon Blues (1998) 80 exemplars
Dead Wednesday (2021) 68 exemplars
My Daddy and Me (2003) 59 exemplars
Mama Seeton's Whistle (2015) 46 exemplars
School Daze Collection (1993) 21 exemplars
The Mighty Crashman (2002) 18 exemplars
My Fourth of July (2019) 15 exemplars
Jerry Spinelli Collection (2004) 10 exemplars
Night of the Whale (1985) 7 exemplars
Particelle atomiche (2022) 2 exemplars
Magee, zis Maniacul 1 exemplars
O MANÍACO MAGEE 1 exemplars
Mongoose [novelette] — Autor — 1 exemplars
His Promised Land 1 exemplars
Quarta elementare 1 exemplars
Zinkoff, el inútil 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Guys Write for Guys Read (2005) — Col·laborador — 764 exemplars
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Col·laborador — 342 exemplars
Half-Minute Horrors (2009) — Col·laborador — 277 exemplars
It's Fine To Be Nine (2000) — Col·laborador — 121 exemplars
Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories that Cover All the Bases (2008) — Col·laborador — 118 exemplars
Connections (1989) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars

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YA boy coming of age from 80's or 90's a Name that Book (novembre 2011)

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Jake and Lily are twins who just turn 11 as the story begins, each chapter is written alternately by them. This is a lovely story about growing up and growing into individuals. Jake and Lily get to meet their long-missed grandfather, Poppy and discover that being twins doesn’t mean they have to do everything together. Lily reminds the reader of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird with her independence and determination. There’s goombla, goobers and supergoobers-you’ll have to read the book to learn what they mean.
This is a great book to read this summer since that’s when the book takes place.
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BiblioQueen | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Feb 5, 2024 |
Stargirl is cute but also a little but creepy like a stalker.

Be yourself and be nice to people. Try not to let the force of public opinion sway you - especially while in high school.
 
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hmonkeyreads | Hi ha 373 ressenyes més | Jan 25, 2024 |
This was an interesting read, but I would never recommend it to a kid, and I'd doubt I'd have read it at all if the author weren't Jerry Spinelli. It seems more like a book written for adults (or maybe nostalgic teens) who want to dwell in a romanticized and stylized version of childhood. The language was creative, the plot a little dull, the setting cool. My one-star rating comes down to this: the reality of growing up is never as poetic and symbolic as it is in Hokey Pokey. Some readers will revel in Spinelli's fanciful prose-poetry and whimsy-laden metaphors. Others will feel nauseated. I went back and forth, but mostly felt nauseated.

There are obvious comparisons to be made to Peter Pan. Hokey Pokey seemed to me at first to be another version of Never-Never Land and Jack was an obvious Peter Pan-type leader. But that's kind of a misleading comparison. Jack's journey in this book is all about accepting that he's growing up and exiting childhood--there's nothing very Peter Pan in that. Also, there's no Captain Hook.
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LibrarianDest | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Jan 3, 2024 |

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Obres
60
També de
7
Membres
50,653
Popularitat
#300
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
1,282
ISBN
665
Llengües
13
Preferit
50

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